{"id":10333,"date":"2022-11-19T00:14:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/dont-expect-console-or-game-pass-crossplay-from-warhammer-40k-darktide-any-time-soon\/"},"modified":"2022-11-19T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-19T00:14:50","slug":"dont-expect-console-or-game-pass-crossplay-from-warhammer-40k-darktide-any-time-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/19\/dont-expect-console-or-game-pass-crossplay-from-warhammer-40k-darktide-any-time-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t expect console or Game Pass crossplay from Warhammer 40K: Darktide any time soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A game like Warhammer 40K: Darktide is best enjoyed with friends, so it&#8217;s natural to want as wide a pool as possible of potential co-op partners among your real life peeps. To that end, crossplay seems like a natural fit for a cooperative, PvE experience like Darktide. Unfortunately, at least at launch, Fatshark has definitively confirmed that every potential platform for Darktide will be siloed off from one another.<\/p>\n<h2>Will Warhammer: 40K Darktide have console crossplay?<\/h2>\n<p>In a word, no. A post on <a href=\"https:\/\/support.fatshark.se\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/7709998114589-Is-Crossplay-and-Cross-Save-Coming-to-Darktide-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatshark&#8217;s official support website<\/a> dated November 14 states that &#8220;We appreciate the value in Crossplay and Cross-Save. However, for launch these options will not be available. At this time, we are unable to comment on when or if Crossplay and Cross-Save will be available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Does Warhammer 40K: Darktide have crossplay between Steam and Game Pass?<\/h2>\n<p>Also firmly no. Back in June a Fatshark employee responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/1361210\/discussions\/0\/3417683648799054327\/#c3417683648802245893=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam forum post<\/a> on the subject, writing &#8220;We&#8217;re not saying it&#8217;s not possible, or not being explored, but we&#8217;re also not going to say &#8216;yes it&#8217;s in, Day 1.&#8217; We like the idea of it and are exploring it, but don&#8217;t expect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Will crossplay ever come to Warhammer 40K: Darktide?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Darktide guides<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Fatshark)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/warhammer-40000-darktide-classes-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darktide classes guide<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/warhammer-40K-darktide-pc-system-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darktide system requirements<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/warhammer-darktide-play-with-bots-solo-private-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can you play Darktide solo with bots?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unclear\u2014I wouldn&#8217;t hold my breath on it being a priority for Fatshark, though. Both of those posts leave the door open <em>just<\/em> a smidge to the possibility. With language that hedged, I could see it being a year two or three addition if the game maintains a steady player base that keeps asking for it.<\/p>\n<p>Before being able to add Xbox-PC crossplay, Draktide actually has to be released on Microsoft&#8217;s console, and we don&#8217;t know when that will be happening. When Darktide was delayed to November 30 on PC earlier this year, Fatshark said the Xbox release would follow &#8220;shortly after.&#8221; That may mean early 2023.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Don&#8217;t expect console or Game Pass crossplay from Warhammer 40K: Darktide any time soon<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p>A game like Warhammer 40K: Darktide is best enjoyed with friends, so it&#8217;s natural to want as wide a pool as possible of potential co-op partners among your real life peeps. To that end, crossplay seems like a natural fit for a cooperative, PvE experience like Darktide. Unfortunately, at least at launch, Fatshark has definitively confirmed that every potential platform for Darktide will be siloed off from one another.<\/p>\n<h2>Will Warhammer: 40K Darktide have console crossplay?<\/h2>\n<p>In a word, no. A post on <a href=\"https:\/\/support.fatshark.se\/hc\/en-us\/articles\/7709998114589-Is-Crossplay-and-Cross-Save-Coming-to-Darktide-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fatshark&#8217;s official support website<\/a> dated November 14 states that &#8220;We appreciate the value in Crossplay and Cross-Save. However, for launch these options will not be available. At this time, we are unable to comment on when or if Crossplay and Cross-Save will be available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Does Warhammer 40K: Darktide have crossplay between Steam and Game Pass?<\/h2>\n<p>Also firmly no. Back in June a Fatshark employee responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/app\/1361210\/discussions\/0\/3417683648799054327\/#c3417683648802245893=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam forum post<\/a> on the subject, writing &#8220;We&#8217;re not saying it&#8217;s not possible, or not being explored, but we&#8217;re also not going to say &#8216;yes it&#8217;s in, Day 1.&#8217; We like the idea of it and are exploring it, but don&#8217;t expect it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Will crossplay ever come to Warhammer 40K: Darktide?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Darktide guides<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"credit\">(Image credit: Fatshark)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/warhammer-40000-darktide-classes-guide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darktide classes guide<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/warhammer-40K-darktide-pc-system-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Darktide system requirements<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/warhammer-darktide-play-with-bots-solo-private-matches\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Can you play Darktide solo with bots?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Unclear\u2014I wouldn&#8217;t hold my breath on it being a priority for Fatshark, though. Both of those posts leave the door open <em>just<\/em> a smidge to the possibility. With language that hedged, I could see it being a year two or three addition if the game maintains a steady player base that keeps asking for it.<\/p>\n<p>Before being able to add Xbox-PC crossplay, Draktide actually has to be released on Microsoft&#8217;s console, and we don&#8217;t know when that will be happening. When Darktide was delayed to November 30 on PC earlier this year, Fatshark said the Xbox release would follow &#8220;shortly after.&#8221; That may mean early 2023.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}